Clamp, path-regulating member, and wire harness

Abstract

A clamp that is to be used as a constituent member of a wire harness, the wire harness including wires, a sheathing material that is flexible and covers the wires, and a path regulator for regulating a path along which the wires are laid out from outside of the sheathing material, the path regulator having an axial direction parallel to the path along which the wires are laid out, the clamp including: a support with a ring-shaped structure for supporting the path regulator, wherein the ring-shaped structure of the support is configured to restrict rotation of the path regulator around an axis thereof and to allow relative movement of the path regulator and the clamp in the axial direction by fitting to a protrusion or a recess of the path regulator.

1 . A clamp that is to be used as a constituent member of a wire harness,
 the wire harness including wires, a sheathing material that is flexible and covers the wires, and a path regulator for regulating a path along which the wires are laid out from outside of the sheathing material, the path regulator having an axial direction parallel to the path along which the wires are laid out,   the clamp comprising:   a support with a ring-shaped structure for supporting the path regulator,   wherein the ring-shaped structure of the support is configured to restrict rotation of the path regulator around an axis thereof and to allow relative movement of the path regulator and the clamp in the axial direction by fitting to a protrusion or a recess of the path regulator.   
     
     
         2 . The clamp according to  claim 1 ,
 wherein the ring-shaped structure has an insertion that enables the path regulator to be inserted therefrom in a radial direction of the ring-shaped structure.   
     
     
         3 . The clamp according to  claim 2 ,
 wherein the ring-shaped structure has a protrusion to be fitted to the recess of the path regulator, and   the protrusion of the ring-shaped structure has a pair of outer side faces that are separate from each other in a circumferential direction of the ring-shaped structure, and a leading end face continuous with the pair of outer side faces, and an angle formed by one of the pair of outer side faces and the leading end face is greater than an angle formed by the other one of the outer side faces and the leading end face.   
     
     
         4 . The clamp according to  claim 3 ,
 wherein a corner between an end face forming at least one of two ends forming the insertion of the ring-shaped structure and an inner-circumferential face of the ring-shaped structure is chamfered.   
     
     
         5 . The clamp according to  claim 1 , further comprising:
 at least one of an attachment for attaching the sheathing material, and a fixing portion to be fixed to a vehicle.   
     
     
         6 . A path regulator that is to be used as a constituent member of a wire harness,
 the wire harness including wires, a sheathing material that is flexible and covers the wires, and a clamp having a support with a ring-shaped structure for supporting the path regulator, the path regulator comprising:   a body that has an axial direction parallel to a path along which the wires are laid out, regulates the path along which the wires are laid out from outside of the sheathing material, and comprises a protrusion or a recess for restricting rotation of the body around an axis thereof and for allowing relative movement of the body and the clamp in the axial direction by fitting to the ring-shaped structure of the support.   
     
     
         7 . The path regulator according to  claim 6 , comprising:
 the protrusion having a pair of outer side faces that are separate from each other in a circumferential direction of the body, and a leading end face continuous with the pair of outer side faces,   wherein an angle formed by one of the pair of outer side faces and the leading end face is greater than an angle formed by the other one of the outer side faces and the leading end face.   
     
     
         8 . A wire harness comprising:
 wires;   a sheathing material that is flexible and covers the wires,   a path regulator for regulating a path along which the wires are laid out from outside the sheathing material, due to having an axial direction parallel to the path along which the wires are laid out; and   a clamp having a support with a ring-shaped structure for supporting the path regulator,   wherein the path regulator has a protrusion or a recess, and   the ring-shaped structure of the support is configured to restrict rotation of the path regulator the around an axis thereof and to allow relative movement of the path regulator and the clamp in the axial direction by fitting to the protrusion or the recess of the path regulator.